{"id":8762,"date":"2014-10-17T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2014-10-17T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T17:44:02","slug":"another-busy-week-for-ihbc-hesprs-tender-alerts-71m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8762","title":{"rendered":"Another busy week for IHBC HESPR&#8217;s tender alerts: \u00a371m+!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The IHBC\u2019s support for its listing of corporate bodies that support the institute\u2019s conservation standards, HESPR, now includes regular email alerts on relevant tender advertisements, and which this week sees a record \u00a371,815,000 of specified costs for works notified to the institute\u2019s HESPR members, a conservative figure as it takes minimum contract values and excludes works with no values specified<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>IHBC\u2019s Director Sean O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018We developed our listing of IHBC-recognised business services, HESPR, back in 2007 to help support our private sector members and their businesses.\u00a0 Growth has been slow, often with our most ardent supporters \u2013 and volunteers \u2013 leading the way.\u00a0 Now, with benefits such as our regular tender alerts, the dedicated pages in our <em>Yearbook<\/em>, as well as the high profile and credibility offered through any association with the IHBC\u2019s strong brand, I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll see renewed interest in this high-end service, helped also by the fact that, like all the top-notch benefits in the IHBC, it comes at bargain basement prices.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018These new notices of tenders advertise opportunities to our HESPR members, but the data is collected also to record the breadth and scale of our members\u2019 prospective interests.\u00a0 The works advertised are very diverse, ranging from archaeological contracts to new build in historic areas \u2013 no less central a concern for any concerned conservation practitioner or civic volunteer &#8211; so of course not all tenders will be relevant to every HESPR member.\u00a0 However, just as our NewsBlogs represent our member interests in their distillation of sector news, so too the circulated tenders represent the business interests of our members\u2019 sectors in all their diversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And of course we\u2019ll also be able use the data gathered in preparing the notices to help push our conservation agenda to government and policy makers.\u00a0 With these figures they must better understand just how central conservation must become in policy development.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>IHBC Projects Officer Fiona Newton said: \u2018Remember too that HESPR membership is open to any service provider that wishes to tie their corporate operations to the practice standards of the IHBC.\u00a0 All that your business needs is a full member of the IHBC who is willing to link their personal professional obligations to the service standards of the company they represent.\u00a0 That way IHBC member serves as its \u2018Designated Service Adviser\u2019, or DSA.\u00a0 The DSA might be anyone from a sole trader in private practice to a staff member in a multi- with DSA responsibilities specified in the job description.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/join\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Samples of\u00a0tender notices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit\u00a0HESPR\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/join\/index.html\u00a0%20\u00a0\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\">Join HESPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC\u2019s support for its listing of corporate bodies that support the institute\u2019s conservation standards, HESPR, now includes regular email alerts on relevant tender advertisements, and which this week sees a record \u00a371,815,000 of specified costs for works notified to &hellip; 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